First, let me say that I got such a kick out of shopping for my weekend. I went to Wal-Mart late Thursday night, and I realized at some point that everyone in the store could probably tell what kind of weekend I was having, just by looking at the contents of my shopping cart. On Friday afternoon I went to the Mayfair Hotel in Coconut Grove, FL. It was great. The hotel is designed so that all of the rooms are along open hallways facing a central atrium. You take a glass elevator up to your level, and you can look across all the lush tropical vegetation.

The room was beautiful. I had specifically picked this hotel because of the location in Coconut Grove, close to restaurants and shopping, and because each room has a “Japanese soaking tub”. My companion for this adventure said that we were going to spend the weekend talking in Japanese, which we did, but I am not convinced that the hot tub really is a “Japanese soaking tub”. The room had marble floors and flat screen TVs in both the bedroom and bathroom. The balcony of our room faced an apartment building, however a few feet away from the balcony’s edge there was a trellis surrounding the entire hotel where they had planted more tropical plants. I felt as if I were in my own tropical oasis. The hot tub was great, and *gasp* I went in naked.

I didn’t end up leaving the room at all. I ordered an omlette from room service, which was great. The king size bed was super comfy, and the DVD player also played CDs, so I ended up bringing all of my Sade CDs along. This experience was exactly what I needed. I highly recommend this hotel and I’d like to go back again soon.